PREDOC Summer Program
Jun 1, 2022·
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Spencer Hilligoss
Selected for the PREDOC Summer Program 2022: Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems. Data analytics training course directed by economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Nathaniel Hendren at Harvard University’s Opportunity Insights.
Authors
PhD Candidate in Statistics
Spencer Hilligoss is a PhD candidate in Statistics at the University of California, Irvine,
advised by Dr. Annie Qu and Dr. Tianchen Qian. His research develops methods for causal
mediation analysis, representation learning, and generative modeling of complex time series,
with applications spanning personalized medicine, mobile health, and financial data. His
work on causal mediation in continuous glucose monitoring was recently published in
npj Metabolic Health and Disease.